I'm not positive about this, but since Google is not a mobile device, it shouldn't index the mobile version.

Do you also have a script on the mobile version that would detect if a desktop browser came to it, they would end up at the desktop version?

I think that would better solve your problem. Because you do want the mobile version to be indexed in mobile search.

Hi Jill,

Google did index the mobile pages. I used the site:mydomain.com to make sure from a desktop computer.

Not sure if I want to add a redirect from mobile to desktop. One bad programming error and I can see users being directed back in forth with no end in site. I'm sure that the redirect code doesn't identify all devices 100% accurately either.

I guess I assumed that mobile search was nearly the same as a desktop search. Am I wrong? I do know that I can choose which devices that my Google Adwords campaign will appear on. Other than that, I thought they were identical.

I think that's the right strategy for a lot of sites, but I don't think it would work for us. Our pages are so big (something I'm hoping to fix, but it's a long, slow process) that even if we set the CSS for the mobile display of the page to not display a lot of elements, it would still take forever for the page to load. I think we have to create separate, stripped-down versions of our pages for a separate mobile site and redirect to it based on recognized user-agents.